I have a fair amount of media I'm trying to view on my xbox one and it's being transcoded by plex because it's more than 8Mpbs. According to the supported formats page it says Bitrate: 20Mbps or lower but plex server is transcoding because the client is asking for it.
Is there a reason the xbox one client is setting the maxVideoBitrate=8000? Is there any way I can get this to be higher or configurable?
When you are playing a video, hit a button so the onscreen gui comes up. Move over to the ellipses (...) and hit 'A'. Now from the pop up menu under quality select 'Highest' (I believe). That's the only thing I can think of that should cause that. Worth a shot if you haven't already. :)
Thanks for the reply adamskoog. That's the setting I've got it on actually. It seems like they have capped the max bit rate for XBO and PS4 at 8Mpbs.
I'm just really surprised and saddened because the web page says 20Mbps content is supported and I bought the plex pass thinking I'd be able to direct play my content or at least direct stream the H.264 video.
Seems very much like false advertising to me.
So where are you getting the maxVideoBitrate from? Is that a log file? Can you post your PMS logs while playing a video that this happens on for troubleshooting?
Here is the log entry for the request:
/video/:/transcode/universal/start.m3u8?path=http%3A%2F%2F127.0.0.1%3A32400%2Flibrary%2Fmetadata%2F1558&mediaIndex=0&partIndex=0&protocol=hls&offset=0&fastSeek=1&directPlay=0&directStream=1&videoQuality=60&videoResolution=1920x1080&maxVideoBitrate=8000&subtitleSize=100&audioBoost=100&session=kehcyr9jocbp&X-Plex-Client-Identifier=paicgekbdhgb&X-Plex-Product=Plex+for+Xbox+One&X-Plex-Device=Xbox+One&X-Plex-Platform=Xbox+One&X-Plex-Platform-Version=10.0&X-Plex-Version=1.0.0.13&X-Plex-Device-Name=Xbox-SystemOS&X-Plex-Token=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx&X-Plex-Username=ipjohnson (8 live) GZIP
Followed a little bit later with these log entries:
Apr 29, 2015 18:45:32 [0x809920c00] DEBUG - MDE: analyzing video part 1530: mp4/h264/ac3/
Apr 29, 2015 18:45:32 [0x809920c00] DEBUG - MDE: selected video transcode profile: hls - mpegts/h264/ac3/
Apr 29, 2015 18:45:32 [0x809920c00] DEBUG - Tron: Legacy - video.bitrate limitation applies: 10000 > 8000
If I look at Now playing I can see it's transcoding the video and doing a direct stream for the audio. While I have the cpu power to do the transcode I'd really rather have the original 10Mbps video and not spend the cycles
Note: I have been able to get some media in direct play mode but all of it was less than 8Mpbs.
Hmm, well, hopefully a dev or ninja will chime in on this at some point.
Seems odd that they have stated 20 for the Xbox One, but it's limiting it to 8. :(
I completely agree does seem very odd. Hopefully a dev can shed some light on the matter. :wacko:
This might be why I keep getting an issue with stuttering on some films where the track is dts =/
There's no hardcoded bitrate limit in the xbox one client. It sounds like a bug in the quality selection during video playback and that it's somehow got 'stuck' at 8mbps. If you close the video settings menu and open it again, does 'Highest' still have a checkmark? Try changing to another value and seeing if that affects the log.
Sorry about this. We've done some rework in this area for the next release, so hopefully that'll help banish any gremlins as well.
Hi Dom C,
That actually seems to fix the problem. I set it to a lower bitrate, hit play then switched it back to highest quality and it seemed to fix the problem now all my media is playing with direct play. Even the stuff with variable bitrates and subtitles.
Much appreciated, I'll be waiting patiently for the new update with music support :)
Glad that worked for you! Sorry for the gremlin :)
